How Has Postmodernism Impacted Truth and Trust in Higher Ed?

Join us live in OISE’s ground-floor auditorium on December 9 at 7pm as two well-known scholars discuss the impacts of postmodernism on truth and trust in higher education.  This event will also be livestreamed.

Mark Lilla is Professor of Humanities, specializing in intellectual history at Columbia University. He is a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books, and is author of several books, including The Once and Future Liberal: After Identity Politics (2017), The Shipwrecked Mind: On Political Reaction (2016), The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics, and the Modern West (2007), and most recently, Ignorance and Bliss: On Wanting Not to Know (2024).

Michael Behrent is Professor of History at Appalachian State University. His scholarship seeks to historicize the work of the French philosopher Michel Foucault, situating it within France’s shifting ideological landscape in the 1970s, and also within his upbringing in France from the 1920s to the 1940s.

If you have any questions about this event, please direct them to Professor Scott Davies (scott.davies@utoronto.ca) or Stephen Reich (sfreich@outlook.com).